PRODUCTS & SERVICES
PULSAR INSTRUMENTS TACKLES NIHL WITH NEW PERSONAL
NOISE DOSEMETER Pulsar Instruments, manufacturer of occupational noise measurement products, has increased its range of noise monitors with the release of a new personal noise dosemeter; The NoisePen, for use by safety professionals who are keen to monitor hearing loss and avoid civil claims for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.
The NoisePen is a stand-alone noise dosemeter which can be clipped to the user’s shoulder or upper body, close to the ear using various mounting options. It is specifically designed to be worn by an employee throughout their working day or shift, measuring and registering all necessary data about their personal noise exposure.
The new device is particularly relevant in noisy environments such as warehouses, machinery workshops, vehicle cabins and factories where workers operate on their own and where the use of a traditional hand held sound level meter to monitor noise exposure levels would not work.
The NoisePen allows for over 30 hours of measurement data to be safely stored in its memory.
It is possible
to schedule measurements for up to 28 days into the future to suit work patterns. All interaction such as setup, start, stop, download and report processes are undertaken via Pulsar‘s intuitive reporting and analysis software package: AnalyzerPlus.
ADVANCED PAT TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES SAFETY MANAGEMENT AT
HMP WINCHESTER Advanced portable appliance testing instrumentation is helping the team at HM Winchester Prison fulfil their health and safety responsibilities.
Following last year’s transfer of facilities management services at a number of prisons to Carillion, the FM team at Winchester is using a Seaward Apollo 600 tester to combine electrical testing with other workplace safety tasks.
To meet its responsibilities, the team at Winchester has established rigorous inspection and testing procedures to ensure that all prison equipment and systems remain safe for use.
As well as the safety of all electrical equipment and appliances used on the prison site, this includes the regular testing of water systems for
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Legionnaires disease, the condition of emergency lighting systems and fire alarm control panels.
The focal point of the prison’s health and safety inspection and testing programme is the multi-purpose Apollo 600 tester, supported by the PATGuard 3 Elite software program.
As part of the safe systems of work established in the prison, the Apollo is used to produce bar codes to identify all individual electrical appliances and other items of equipment included in the health and safety inspections.
In addition, the instrument’s on board camera also enables images taken during visual inspections and risk assessments to be tagged against records to provide evidence of decisions taken and a traceable audit trail of all safety conditions.
Jeff Foster, FM Services Manager for Carillion at HMP Winchester, said: “With the huge variety of equipment and appliances in use in the prison, there is a considerable time saving in being able to identify items, carry out tests, record results and make any notes as part of a fully streamlined process.
“Having all non-electrical inspections alongside the results of traditional PAT tests, in the same system and in the same format, also means that reports and certificates can be produced quickly and easily.”
At HMP Winchester, the electrical team uses the battery powered Apollo 600 to carry out all of the electrical safety tests required by the IET Code of Practice on the many different appliances located throughout.
The system checks and assessment records entered in the PATGuard 3 software enables the FM manager to log inspections and identify any issues arising that can be flagged up in reports to senior staff and heads of departments.
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Sarah Brack, MD of Pulsar Instruments said: “We are delighted to introduce this new addition to our existing range of personal noise dosemeters. This is British engineering at its best. With the NoisePen, we now have a family of Personal Noise Dosemeters with global mass market appeal that will suit a range of applications and budgets.”
The NoisePen is reliable, time saving and self-contained: making it a powerful companion for any compliant noise risk assessments in the workplace. It now takes it rightful place alongside Pulsar Instruments’ wide range of solutions for assessing noise exposure in the workplace to achieve compliance with Noise Regulations around the world.
The NoisePen is designed and manufactured entirely in the UK and is supplied with everything required to conduct a fully compliant survey. It meets IEC 61252:1993 and ANSI S1.25: 1991 standards.
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